…Multiple locations in the Ann Arbor area are now offering the new COVID-19 bivalent booster vaccine. The bivalent booster — which was authorized by the Food and Drug Administration at the end of August — protects against the original, BA.4 and BA.5 strands of the highly contagious Omicron variant. The University Health Service (UHS) in collaboration with Walgreens, is running pop-up COVID-19 bivalent booster and flu shot clinic...…
…University of Michigan Libraries announced in August that the prized gem of its astronomy collection, an original manuscript by Galileo Galilei, was actually a forgery following an investigation by Georgia State University professor Nick Wilding. The manuscript contained writings on Galileo’s telescopic observations of celestial bodies orbiting Jupiter, which reversed a common 17th century belief that Earth ...…
…DEI Climate Survey results session What progress has been made around the climate at U-M over the last five years? Join us as we discuss the findings of our latest university-wide climate survey from 2021. RSVP to attend: myumi.ch/M9293 IN-PERSON SESSION: Tuesday, Sept. 27 | 8:30-10 am Michigan Union, Rogel Ballroom Open to all students, faculty & staff The session will also be livestreamed, recorded and posted on the DEI website. ...…
…4 — Wednesday, September 21, 2022 Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Less than a year after the release of the third installment of the “After” series, I willingly purchased tickets to the premiere of the fourth movie, “After Ever Happy.” I stepped into the theater well aware that the plot would be weak, the relationship between Tessa (Josephine Langford, “Moxie”) and Hardin (Hero Fiennes Tiffin, “First Love”) would...…
…In middle school, I was always hunting for more games to add to my collection. Spending $60 on a new title was a luxury that I could only afford once or twice a year, so I would always peruse the Xbox 360 game market for cheap or free games to play. Most of what was available were demos or knockoffs of other titles that I’d delete within a few minutes, disappointed and bored yet again. Today, that problem doesn’t exist. My middle s...…
…My friend Jill is sitting behind me at a library table as the sun gets closer to setting in the distance, just past the lake, surrounded by a haze of trees that serve as a reminder that we are in the middle of nowhere. We’re supposed to be reading something for class, and I remark that the author has continually connected the idea of femininity with the ability to give birth. That is not how I’ve ever experienced femininity, I tell ...…
…Imagine this: You’ve just seen a photo of the most appetizing fettuccine pasta, smothered with Alfredo sauce, on someone’s Instagram story. You don’t know the person well, but the food looks scrumptious; you have to know where they got it from. You respond to the post, asking for the name of the restaurant that prepared this mouth-watering meal. “This spot is kind of a personal thing to me,” comes the response. “Wha...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Michigan in Color 8 — Wednesday, September 21, 2022 I must confess: I am on the verge of buying a vape right now. Even after five months of sobriety, I still love everything about vaping: the soft crackling sound when I inhale, the sharp, euphoric feeling that penetrates my cerebrum, the subtle thrill of hiding in a bathroom stall to carry out the deed discreetly and, of course, the ability to ...…
…Q ueen Elizabeth II passed away in her sleep on Sept. 8, 2022, following her 70-year reign as the United Kingdom’s longest serving monarch. Whether this development has been perceived as a great tragedy, a moment of indifference or a chance for criticism, it is undeniable that the Queen’s death marked the end of a relevant and long-lasting reign, the impact of which has been felt even in America. But why exactly do the Queen, ...…
…Content warning: This article contains mentions of sexual assault T he 50th anniversary of Title IX of the Civil Rights Act of 1972 on June 23, 2022, was marked by emotional turmoil for many. A great win for the students of America was immediately followed by the disheartening Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision, which largely overshadowed the triumphs and failures of the Biden administration’s proposed cha...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Wednesday, September 21, 2022 — 11 Michigan takes advantage of corner penalties in win over Cornell CAROLINE CRECCA For The Daily Within less than five minutes of play, the No. 7 Michigan field hock- ey team scored on its second corner of the game—the second of fifteen offensive corners in its shutout against Cornell. On Sunday, the Wolverines’ abil- ity to convert on corners proved to be the d...…
…ANNA FUDER/Daily ROLL ROLL OVER OVER NICHOLAS STOLL Managing Sports Editor Huskies go belly-up in 59-0 drubbing, completing Michigan’s easy non-conference schedule T he Michigan football team took care of business. In a 59-0 rout of UConn (1-3 overall), the fourth-ranked Wolverines (3-0) secured their third win of the season, closing out their non-conference slate on a high note. It was a outcome that was never really in doubt —...…
…michigandaily.com Ann Arbor, Michigan Friday, September 21, 2018 ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-SEVEN YEARS OF EDITORIAL FREEDOM LSA freshman Noah Wolfson hadn’t heard of the University of Michigan’s annual fall EarthFest event, so he was pleasantly surprised when he saw, dotted across the Diag, stands offering sustainability information, donuts, apples and more. “To be honest, I actually didn’t know this was happening until I walked on...…
…however, the Regents continue to shower Schlissel with glowing performance reviews. “Our conclusion, President Schlissel is knocking the ball out of the park,” Regent Chair Andrew Richner, R, said. “From the outside, I don’t think we appreciate just how demanding and complex the job of the University of Michigan president is. I know this president spends 24/7 on his responsibilities.” “I have the most challenging, but th...…
…students absolutely love,” Rothfuss said. “I cannot tell you how many emails I got asking if they were going to be there.” This was Rothfuss’s first year organizing the event. She said many organizations returned to participate, such as Leslie’s Science and Nature Center, which gives animal demonstrations, and MDining, which teaches students how they can cook healthy food. The goal of EarthFest, Rothfuss said, is to ed...…
…O ftentimes when Americans think about a person exemplifying patriotism, they conjure images of a courageous soldier defending American values and protecting her country against enemies, foreign and domestic. If you take that same framework of someone acting with courage even when at direct personal cost, it is evident that Christine Blasey Ford, a professor at Palo Alto University, demonstrates this courage and ...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Friday, September 21, 2018 — 5A ACROSS 1 Harmonious groups 7 Maybelline product 14 Role for Miley 15 Sticks 16 Result of too many people fishing? 18 Customer file prompt 19 Lincoln and Grant had them in common 21 Meet halfway 22 Show of support 24 Religious music? 27 Buoyant wood 30 On point 31 ’60s protest gp. 32 Well-versed about sailing ships? 37 Exhilarated shout 38 Fencing gear 40 D...…
…“The Land of Steady Habits” opens with a mundane yet vaguely terrifying and seemingly endless supply of bath towels. And kitchen supplies. And toothbrush holders. All things that should mark a quintessential, white- picket-fence life in suburbia. Instead, there’s barely a shadow of this lifestyle and, in its place, are the scattered remains of a financial shark’s attempt to go rogue. Though interesting in theory, “Th...…
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…FootballSaturday, September 21, 2018 2B STAFF PICKS The Daily football writers pick against the spread for top-25 and Big Ten teams. Mark Calcagno Max Marcovitch Mike Persak Ethan Wolfe No. 22 Texas A&M at No. 1 Alabama (-26) Alabama Alabama Alabama Alabama Alabama No. 2 Georgia (-14.5) at Missouri Georgia Georgia Georgia Georgia Georgia No. 3 Clemson (-15.5) at Georgia Tech Georgia Tech Clemson Clemson Clemson Georgia Tech Tulane at...…
…3B TheMichiganDaily, www.michigandaily.com Behind Enemy Lines: A conversation with Nebraska football beat writer Jacob Bova By MIKE PERSAK Managing Sports Editor In the softest part of its otherwise tough schedule, the Michigan football team has started to gain some momentum. The 19th-ranked Wolverines (2-1) have dominated Western Michigan and SMU in the last two weeks, scoring a combined 94 points. Now, though, things will begin...…
…THE Mark Calcagno, Daily Sports Editor TheMichiganDaily, www.michigandaily.com 4B Nico Collins and the light that switched I n mid-August, as he does daily, Nico Collins called home after football practice. Only this conversation wasn’t a typical check-in for the sophomore wide receiver. It was one his dad, Don, had longed to hear. “I asked him how he was doing,” Don said during a phone interview Thursday. “And he was like, ‘I...…
…5 The Wolverines had never heard of Collins, but just days after watching his tape, they flew staff down to Alabama. “Nico actually recruited Michigan,” Floyd said. “It wasn’t Michigan going after him originally, truth be told.” Collins first met Jim Harbaugh with a bag of Dairy Queen in his hands. It wasn’t long before the coach wanted some of his own. “Harbaugh just stuck his hand right in Nico’s bag, grabbed some fries o...…
…FootballSaturday, September 21, 2018 6B Breakdown: Michigan vs. Nebraska By MAX MARCOVITCH Daily Sports Editor Michigan opens up Big Ten play with a matchup against Nebraska that seemed far more intriguing a few weeks ago. The Cornhuskers (0-2) came from 14 points down in their season opener against Colorado to take a 28-20 lead, then handed the game right back after true freshman quarterback Adrian Martinez left the game wit...…
…7B TheMichiganDaily, www.michigandaily.com find his open receivers early in the game, enough to put up 21 points in the blink of an eye. Martinez may not have the weapons around him nor the experience to do that on this stage. But he has the skill. Still, if Michigan’s defense can avoid the over-aggression that plagued it early against Notre Dame, you have to like its chances against a true freshman quarterback in a new system at M...…
…FootballSaturday, September 21, 2018 8B What to Watch For: Nebraska By ETHAN WOLFE Daily Sports Writer Big Ten football is in full swing in Ann Arbor. You can feel it in the air. It starts Saturday, with the Michigan football team’s matchup against first- year coach Scott Frost and Nebraska (0-2 overall). Prior to the start of the season, some expected a contentious head-to-head between two resurgent programs. For the 19th-ranked...…
…Close to 200 University of Michigan students — including members of the Black Student Union and Students4Justice — gathered Wednesday night on the steps of the Michigan Union to protest racially charged incidents on campus in the past week. University President Mark Schlissel, University Police Chief Robert Neumann and other administrators met the group upstairs in the Rogel Ballroom, where students demanded answers to ...…
…2 — Thursday, September 21 , 2017 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News Tweets Follow @michigandaily Michigan Students @UMichStudents MLA? APA? What are all of these frats my professors keep talking about? * @____Simone I’ve always felt uneasy about my sister staying on campus at Umich & now i see why Laurrrrr @L_Dougherty14 So thankful for my amazing professors at umich. Y’all are truly great. Berza @Bridoriya Walking ou...…
…Feeling like an outsider didn’t stop there. There were also the many times during school lunches where I dumped packed lunches or let them run cold in my lunch box. I would starve or pull out the few “appropriate” snacks for lunch I would have that included packaged crackers and sliced apples. The few foods that wouldn’t garner judging looks and wrinkled noses. How desperately I just wanted a brown paper bag and a PB&J sandwich....…
…A little too far from Chicago to be considered a suburb and a little too left- leaning for the stereotype of the typical Indiana small town, Chesterton is kind of an anomaly. Its residents are likewise a unique brand, predisposed to the tension between urban and rural, nature and industry, Long John Silver’s and the Hilton Garden Inn. As any other cliche-riddled small-town narrator would probably claim, a...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Tuesday, September 12, 2017 — 5 Arts RCA Foo Fighters find a new creative voice on ‘Gold’ Nine studio albums into its tenure as a band, Foo Fighters don’t have anything to prove. On Concrete and Gold, though, the band puts in a valiant effort to prove something anyway. The initial track, “T-Shirt,” opens with a gentle sequence of acoustically backed poetry that quickly segues ...…
…6 — Thursday, September 21, 2017 Arts The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com ACROSS 1 Hopped out of bed 6 Challenge for Santa’s dry- cleaner 10 Medicine __, Alberta 13 OPEC, for one 15 Radius neighbor 16 Sworn statement 17 Measurement based on inflation and unemployment rates 19 X, at times 20 Tesla Motors co-founder Musk 21 “Inside Politics” channel 22 Poet laureate, e.g. 24 “Postcards From the Edge” author 28 Where Moses received the Ten C...…
…DISCOVER A GENEROUS SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM. ©2014. Paid for by the United States Army. All rights reserved. The U.S. Army’s Health Professions Scholarship Program (HPSP) offers qualified medical, dental and veterinary students full tuition for a graduate- level degree at the school of your choice. Y ou’ll receive a monthly stipend and payment for books, equipment and academic fees, as well as the potential to grow as a leader . To lea...…
…umichsmtd Night For an evening celebrating the beauty of the human voice featuring CHAMBER CHOIR • ORPHEUS SINGERS • UNIVERSITY CHOIR MUSICAL THEATRE • UNIVERSITY OPERA THEATRE MEN’S GLEE CLUB • WOMEN’S GLEE CLUB Saturday, September 23 at 8 PM • Hill Auditorium Reserved Seating $18/$12/$8/$5 League Ticket Office • 734.764.2538 • tickets.smtd.umich.edu Singing A Grand 8A — Thursday, September 21, 2017 Sports The Michigan Daily — michiga...…
…The University of Michigan’s Spectrum Center and the Office of Multi-Ethnic Student Affairs hosted their second collaborative open house Tuesday to spread awareness about their activities and services for new students on campus. Program organizers Abby Chien, MESA program manager, and Mark Chung Kwan Fan, assistant director for the Spectrum Center, said they’ve started to realize more of the intersections of the two p...…
…around the significant problem that certain childhood cancers have in causing death in children.” According to the National Cancer Institute, cancer is the leading cause of death past infancy among U.S. children. An estimated 10,380 new cases of childhood cancer will be diagnosed in 2016 and about 1,250 children ages 0 to 14 are expected to die from childhood cancer in the same period. Opipari also said there is a need fo...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Michigan in Color Wednesday, September 21, 2016 — 3A Demario Longmire Toni Wang Alyssa Brandon Sabrina Bilimoria Christian Paneda Ashley Tjhung Managing Section Editors Senior Editors “Dipped in chocolate, bronzed in elegance, enameled with grace, toasted with beauty. My Lord, she’s a Black woman.” You may remember seeing this quote from Yosef A.A. Ben- Jochannan in a piece I wrote last ...…
…Forced arbitration: It’s a tactic used by corporations to avoid being held accountable in a court of law for detrimental, and possibly illegal, activities against consumers. Over the past several years, it has become increasingly difficult to apply for necessities such as an auto loan, a cell phone contract or even cable and internet service without being subjected to a hidden arbitration clause. Time Warner Cable, Comcast, ...…
…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Arts Wednesday, September 21, 2016 — 5A Helen Mirren appears on screen first, ready to introduce the 51st season of “Documentary Now!” as VHS documentary- esque music plays on in the background, almost as if to prepare the audience for an actual production. Unlike short, comedic skits that go for the punchline almost immediately, “Documentary Now!” is invested in r...…
…THERE’S A CROSSWORD ON THIS PAGE. DO IT. HAPPY WEDNESDAY! Classifieds Call: #734-418-4115 Email: dailydisplay@gmail.com ACROSS 1 Pour love (on) 5 Sledding spot 10 Work the aisles, slangily 13 Very familiar with 14 Not spontaneous 15 Howe’er 16 “Good Guys Wear Black” star 18 Haul to the shop 19 Sailor’s pronoun 20 Full of energy 21 Stereotypical Geek Squad employee 22 Mass-mailing tool 24 Post- performance celebration 27 Went astray 29 Pup...…
…Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Wednesday, September 21, 2016 — 7A T E A M S T A T S MICH OPP Points/Game 53.0 15.0 First Downs/Game 23.0 15.3 Rush Yards/Game 197.7 140.0 Yards/Rush 4.9 3.6 Rushing TDs 9 2 Passing Yards/Game 254.3 156.0 Completion % 65.9% 45.6% Yards/Pass 8.4 5.9 Passing TDs 8 3 Interceptions 1 2 Offensive Plays/Game 70.7 65.0 Total Offense 452.0 296.0 3rd-down Conversions 48.8% 10.5% 4th...…
…8A — Wednesday, September, 21, 2016 Sports The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Wolverines third after strong finish When the first day of the Inverness Intercollegiate wrapped up for the Michigan men’s golf team, the Wolverines weren’t where they wanted to be. After shooting a team score of 592, Michigan found itself in ninth place out of 13 teams. But Tuesday, the second and final day of the tournament, the Wolverines chan...…
…statement THE MICHIGAN DAILY | SEPTEMBER 21, 2016 …
…A t The Michigan Daily copy desk, we contour articles before they’re presented to the public — or, rather, the Daily Stylebook does. We comb through each article, checking for every- thing as obvious as getting the facts right and as seemingly insignificant as the use of a semi-colon, pausing repeatedly to consult the Stylebook. The final product stands alone, though stripped of Oxford commas and laced with abbreviated titles, an...…
…3B Wednesday, September 21, 2016 / The Statement S ometimes I call myself a “sonic youth.” It’s become a bit of a pet name this first month of school — a pep name, if you will — that reminds me I am still a crisp young gun, traipsing the sunny streets of Ann Arbor with as much musicality as possible. But also, I’ve been into Sonic Youth lately. Teenage Riot – Sonic Youth “Yeah, you’re it,” Kim Gordon begins the song whispering, ...…
…Wednesday, September 21, 2016 // The Statement 4B Wednesday, September 21, 2016 // The Statement 5B D ressed in a black cap and gown, walking across a stage in front of thousands of their colleagues with a sash over their heads and diplomas in their hands — people dream of their college graduation from the days of their youth. It is a day held in the highest esteem. The ensuing party, full of thoughtful gifts and congratulatory gest...…
…M y parents both graduated from the University of Michigan in 1990. My dad was an outside line- backer on the varsity football team in 1988, under legendary coach Bo Schembechler. My mom choreographed multiple productions each year for the School of Music, The- atre & Dance. They can both share anecdotes about working multiple jobs on campus and being involved in clubs. Each of them went on to complete master’s programs. They met in cl...…
…H e’ll be born in March. March is undoubtedly the best month for him to be born, because he can still be included in the elementary school calendar of class birthdays, he’ll share an astrological sign with Kurt Cobain and he’ll be mentioned in the same breath as both a lion and a lamb. His ears will be of equal size, rather than uneven and with a single, pointed side. This will help with his insecurity, but mostly avoid the cognitiv...…
…Wednesday, September 21, 2016 // The Statement 8B V I S U A L S T A T E M E N T : P A Y N O M I N D T R Y I N G T O C A P T U R E A N D L I V E I N T H E M O M E N T This summer, I photographed about 20 or so concerts of everyone from The 1975 to Johnny Depp, and yet I don’t think any of them I would consider a favorite among all I have seen. Not because the performances were bad, or I wasn’t close enough, but because when you photogra...…
…michigandaily.com Ann Arbor, Michigan Monday, September 21, 2015 CELEBRATING OUR ONE-HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FIFTH YEAR OF EDITORIAL FREEDOM The Michigan football team won its second game of the Jim Harbaugh era Saturday. » INSIDE Another victory Fiorina, Paul urge Republicans to re-examine party identity By SHOHAM GEVA Daily News Editor Their platforms were differ- ent, but the Saturday speeches of former Hewlett-Packard CEO Ca...…
